Was in Montréal for the weekend stayed at the Downtown area. It was cold as @&$$ so some hot food was just what I needed. The dumplings and egg rolls were delicious, we were told they’re homemade. Spinach chicken was a wonderful dish with crispy spinach and the Szechuan beef was a perfect balance of spice. Fried rice was very fragrant and not oily.
Naj M.
Place rating: 5 Boston, MA
I have been a customer here since 1998, when I started grad studies at McGill. Simply, this is one of the greatest Chinese restaurants I have tried anywhere in the world(including Beijing). It’s a family run business; the food is prepared and served delicately. No MSG. No taste of rotten veggies or reheated chicken to be expected here. Yet it is so cheap(11 – 14 $). My favourite dishes are Shanghai noodles, ginger beef, general tau chicken, and sesame beef. But tasting from friends orders has never disappointed me either. We used to hold many post-defence parties here. Yes they do serve alcohol. Glad to come back to Montréal after a long globe trotting and finding them up and kicking.
Katherine W.
Place rating: 4 Ithaca, NY
I don’t know what’s changed since Charles H was here, but I didn’t find there to be any of the problems he mentioned. In fact, I didn’t think it was overpriced or that the food was sub-par in any way(with the exception of the veggie fried rice I ordered, which I thought could probably have had more flavor to it, and the peanut dumplings, which my friend said were amazing and which I enjoyed but I also found a bit peculiar). We did spend quite a bit on dinner, but that was because we ordered enough for 3 meals. The woman who was serving the food(and, I think, running things) was a little horrified when we ordered as much as we did and even brought us a second table, but she was slightly mollified when we informed her that we were ordering leftovers. And, to my surprise, she managed to drag a second table for us without making either of us feel called out for ordering absurd amounts of food. Anyways: good service, good food, an unfortunately boring and sort of awkward layout, but certainly a better experience for me than for Charles H.
Charles H.
Place rating: 1 Montreal, Canada
The food quality in this place has gone downhill really fast. I just wasted 80 dollars in dinner for two and all I ate was flour, three shrimps and a Hsing Tao beer. We ordered Beef Szechuan which happened to be just big globs of fried dough drenched in sweet n sour sauce, no beef at all, just fried batter… a shrimp dish with six shrimps and a heap of fried noodles(more flour), plus some noodles with vegetables, and obviously more noodles than vegetables… so at the end I must have eaten a pound of flour for which I must have paid around 30 dollars… I love Chinese food, but I always feel ripped off when I go to a Chinese restaurant because what I pay for is not what I get(with very few exceptions)…next time Ill cook my own stuff, I can buy real beef, real chicken, frozen veggies and the spices already prepared at the supermarket(which is what they use at restaurants… I am talking about the spices) … and it will take the same amount of time it took for my and my dinner companion to get the food on the table, but at least Ill know I am eating real food and not allowing anybody rip me off.